Mostafa el-Nahas

Mostafa el-Nahas (15 June 1879-23 August 1965) was Prime Minister of Egypt from 16 March to 27 June 1928 (succeeding Abdel Khalek Sarwat Pasha and preceding Mohamed Mahmoud Pasha), from 1 January to 20 June 1930 (succeeding Adly Yakan Pasha and preceding Ismail Sedky Pasha), from 9 May 1936 to 29 December 1937 (succeeding Aly Maher Pasha and preceding Mohamed Mahmoud Pasha), from 6 February 1942 to 10 October 1944 (succeeding Hussein Serry Pasha and preceding Ahmed Maher Pasha), and from 12 January 1950 to 27 January 1952 (succeeding Hussein Serry Pasha and preceding Aly Maher Pasha). He was a member of the Wafd Party.

Biography
Mostafa el-Nahas was born in Gharbiyya, Egypt on 15 June 1979, and he became a lawyer and co-founded the Wafd Party, becoming its leader upon the death of Saad Zaghloul in 1927. As Premier, he negotiated the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty of 1936, in which the British recognized Egyptian autonomy while maintaining a military presence in the country. During World War II, he initiated a number of social reforms, though he is best remembered for his part in the creation of the Arab League in 1944. In his last period in office, he demanded that the British forces leave the country and hand over Sudan to Egyptian rule. His inability to control the popular nationalist passions he had thus aroused caused his own downfall, and led to Mohammed Naguib and Gamal Abdel Nasser's coup. He died in Alexandria in 1965.